We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.20.2 with a couple of regressions fixed. See the release notes of 1.20.0 for all the changes introduced in Crystal 1.20. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation...

Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I spent the last week or ...

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Last week I attended Startup Grind Global in Redwood City, CA. I find it can be helpful to get boots on the ground to hear first hand what’s happening in the industry. Here are my six key takeaways, grouped by theme. As you can probably guess, there was a lot of AI talk, so please bear in mind there...

Unity Catalog was designed for the open lakehouse. Previously, data teams were stuck...

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization enables customers to optimize their prompts for their current model or migrate prompts to new models faster than before with built-in evaluation feedback loops. Optimize your prompts and compare results for up to 5 models simultaneously.

In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: April 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Learn how to design governance directly into event streaming systems. Covers schemas, lineage, security, retention, and compliance patterns for reliable data platforms.

Last week I spent a day at a retreat that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under the Chatham House Rule, so I can’t attribute the comments and stories I heard. (If anyone rec...

For the past few weeks, Anthropic has continually upset devs with its “dumber” model, and by removing Claude Code access from some paid accounts. After securing lots of compute from SpaceX, could the reason have been to conceal capacity issues?

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When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just a metric. It’s a context switch. Even small delays add up, and they hit hardest at the exact moments developers are trying to stay in flow. It’s not that GitHub Issues was “sl...

How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant. The post From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Sebastian shares a practical three-step workflow for writing feature specs, from gathering notes with tools like Granola to using a thinking model to surface contradictions and scope. He then switches back to hands-on editing to shape the final spec and uses Spiral for a final pass without letting A...

When a partitioning change to our petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused critical billing jobs to stall, standard metrics showed no obvious errors. This post explores how we identified severe lock contention in ClickHouse's query planner and built upstream patches to fix it.

Using data structures you already knew. The post A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Laravel 13.9.0 adds a method to generate HTML passwordrules attributes from your Password validation rule, Cloud queue metrics, optional disk storage for large SQS payloads, Concurrency run timeouts, PendingDispatch conditionable support, and more. The post Generate HTML Password Rules Attribute in ...

Dive masks on — Subnautica 2 is making a splash on GeForce NOW day-and-date with launch, so members can plunge into the title’s brand-new alien ocean from almost any device. It leads 11 new games joining the cloud this week. A limited-time HITMAN World of Assassination reward event brings signature ...

Posted by Nataraj KR, Android Developer Relations EngineerThe initial launch of the Jetpack Telecom library introduced CallsManager, replacing the legacy ConnectionService API to simplify VoIP integration. CallsManager streamlines call lifecycle management and audio routing while enabling interactio...

I’ve been using Claude Code steadily for the last three-plus months. I wouldn’t call myself a power user, but I’ve settled into a rhythm that works: tight PR loops, lean on it for real feature work, push back when it wanders. Why I Finally Bothered with Claude Code Insights The tooling in this space...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Cursor vs Windsurf: Which AI Code Editor Is Best for Python? By working through these questions, you’ll revisit how the two editors differ across code completion, agentic multi-file editing, and debugging. You’ll also reconnect with the audit points wo...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python Metaclasses. Metaclasses sit behind every class you write in Python, and they’re one of the language’s deeper object-oriented concepts. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how classes are themselves objects, how type creates them, and h...